We’re supposed to be on our best behavior at work. Show up on time, act professionally and do your best to ensure that you don’t lose that stable paycheck. But we all have bad days sometimes, and when they strike, we might find it incredibly difficult to keep it together while on the clock.
Redditors have recently been sharing stories of the wildest things they’ve ever witnessed in the workplace. From employees exhibiting unhinged behavior to team members failing to mute themselves during important meetings, this list is full of shocking and facepalm-worthy tales. So enjoy reading through these stories that might make your own office seem incredibly boring, and be sure to upvote the ones that you find most amusing!
#1
I was visiting our warehouse which looked pretty standard as all things go. Tall shelves loaded with pallets, conveyor belts and forklifts going to and fro, burly men and women in high vis attire pottering about.
When all of a sudden a song broke out over the PA system and every single person started dancing. Their expressions didn’t change, they didn’t stop what they were doing or where they were going, they all just danced as they went about their business. A few seconds later the music stopped and they resumed normal existence. It was so bizaare. Like they had been brainwashed to respond to the music and didn’t recognise their own conditioning.
Turns out that’s all part of their ergonomics program. Every so often the music starts up and they’re meant to move about as a form of stretching.
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#2
Teams. I was giving a presentation about my findings to a large group (30+ people) when my cat came in with a pigeon and released it in the room. I excused myself and turned off the camera but forgot to turn off the microphone. Everyone stayed deathly quiet for the ordeal…
Now I don’t swear at work, I’ll drop “gosh darn it” “ruddy”. That’s it. But trying to catch that bird while keeping my cat away from it and then releasing it on the balcony had me swearing like a right sailor.
When I turned the camera back on everyone burst out laughing.
It will forever be “the bird fiasco”.
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#3
A deer ran into the office through a fire door that had been left open. Didn’t understand why it couldn’t get back outside through any of the industrial strength glass walls. It was distracted from butting the glass by the MD obliviously strolling in to see what the noise was about, and promptly decided that the MD was its arch enemy and needed to be defeated.
Utter chaos ensued.
I didn’t know the man had it in him to move so fast. He eventually ran into the server room to escape it and phoned over to beg some of the warehouse guys for help, they managed to herd the deer back outside.
It’s since became our office legend.
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#4
This was in the ’80s at a bad software company run entirely by men. Wonder of wonders, an extremely competent and popular woman programmer was appointed to a management position in Development.
The younger developers decided to have a parade. She was of Scandinavian descent, so they made for her a horned helmet and sword out of aluminum foil, and made for her a sedan chair out of a wooden chair with a couple of pieces of lumber under the arms for support.
Then they carried her outside on the chair while she waved her “sword,” and paraded her around the parking lot at the head of a long column of programmers wearing fish hats and throwing firecrackers. I never understood the fish hats. Edit: And kazoo music. I forgot that.
Those were the days…
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#5
Not my coworker, but someone that worked in my downtown office building. Me and a work friend were on the sidewalk having a smoke when a big crt computer monitor came crashing onto the sidewalk, followed by glass, a computer, a keyboard, and finally a chair. Apparently a guy on the twelfth floor was left alone in the HR office after they notified him that he was getting fired.
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#6
While working at a supermarket, I was walking through the dairy department and saw a fellow employee over by the eggs. As I got closer I could see him with a carton open and he seemed to be turning each egg. After doing the whole pack, I asked him what he was doing and he responded, “the manager asked me to rotate the eggs.” I facepalmed and explained what they actually meant, to which he replied, “that makes a lot more sense.”
For context, in the grocery world, to rotate means to make sure the earliest dates of expiration are towards the front of the shelf.
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#7
A dozen full-grown men all singing Taylor Swift’s “shake it off” in the shower together. Squad showers have scarred me for life.
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#8
A coworker (in a cotton mill) had a heart attack and died right there on the floor.
The supervisor roped off the area around him and worked continued.
EMT, Coroner, Police were all doing their job as we worked around them.
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#9
This lady brought her goat to HR party, it ate the salad bar then her boyfriend (came *with* the goat) passed out drunk in the cheesecake. Nobody said anything ever 🥱
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#10
I used to work in a 5 star hotel one and had this boss who used to enjoy pretending he was better than everyone else one time he wound up the chef so much the chef chased him with a knife around the restaurant shouting and swearing nothing came of it from what I know despite HR knowing.
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#11
Worked with a guy who carried a flask on him at all times, everyone knew he had a flask, everyone knew he drank from it all day, he absolutely reeked of liquor. Once he came in on his day off to grab something from his locker and left, about an hour later his girlfriend came in looking for him, he had driven there with her and she was sitting outside waiting for him. The dude literally flat out forgot his girlfriend had driven him there and he wandered home. He flat out stopped showing up eventually, I ran into him a couple years later, he still reeked of liquor and didn’t even remember who I was.
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#12
Once had a guy call 911, and the police responded, because we wouldn’t give him anything but ice chips. I work in a hospital and he was having surgery the next morning.
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#13
A guy got fired and he trapped himself in a cubicle with a knife threatening people if they walked past. I went in with management and “hid” (chatted with them while leaning on his desk) in one of their offices until the cops came. He usually carried a gun but didn’t have it that day.
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#14
I used to work in fashion design and I had a coworker who kept a flat iron at her desk and would nervously iron her hair throughout the day. I’m amazed she never started a fire.
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#15
I was on a work trip and my boss brought a woman to dinner, was cuddly/ couple-y, etc ok fine until we were back and his wife and kids came to the office and it was definitely not his dinner date.
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#16
A mechanic at the chemical plant where I worked decided to steal some copper tubing by wrapping it around his chest and covering it with his jacket. But it was really cold when he clocked out and the copper constricted and he couldn’t breathe by the time he got up to the guard gate. The guards had a good laugh unwinding him.
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